Rape Culture Starts With Socialization

April 11, 2014|Letter to the editor

In their Fresh Talk article "Campus Rape Culture Must Be Eliminated" [April 9], Mari Jarris and Chloe Murtagh highlight the problem of rape on campus, including the indirect institutional support for the sexual denigration of women, but they miss one important point. Rape is a social problem, one that can be eradicated.

To eradicate rape, we need to socialize our sons to be good human beings and eliminate the pornified culture that we now live in. Males have been committing rape throughout history, but now it is celebrated in pornography, which boys are viewing at a younger age with a high frequency.

The solution should focus on male perception of women, sex and violence. If we change the way we raise our boys, then we can hope to eliminate sexual violence.